Purdue mechanical engineering graduate student Brandon Zwink works with graduate student Emily Prewett, to test a helicopter rotor blade with a portable system that uses sound waves to detect damage. The system, developed at Purdue, can quickly...

Purdue Colleges and Departments. In recent years bagworms have been able to survive relatively mild Indiana winters and emerge on trees farther north in the state. Homeowners can minimize damage to their trees by surveying for bagworms and treating...

Researchers at Purdue prepare to test a rotor blade from a military helicopter with a portable system that can quickly detect damage to aircraft and vehicles made of composite materials. Mechanical engineering graduate student Jonathan White, from...

Root-knot nematodes, recently confirmed in southern Indiana, can cause extensive damage to soybeans, corn and watermelon, three of the main cash crops in that area of the Midwest. Purdue plant pathologist Andreas Westphal and his research team...